Seattle, WA: Town Hall (Bushwick Book Club - The Bible)

This is a big one (two nights!) with a lot of moving parts, from Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and the mixed choir backing up the songwriters to the challenge of Bushwick Book Clubbers writing songs about such revered and potentially-controversial material itself...and performing it at Town Hall!  I drew Adam and Eve, and went hopeful (pre-apple) with a honky-gospel feel.  Kudos to all of the folk involved in pulling off such a big, ambitious, and successful production!

Photo: Melissa Thompson

Seattle, WA: Musicquarium Lounge at The Triple Door

Been enjoying the low-key nature of Sundays throughout the MQ residency, but nice to grab some Friday energy, too--especially when it's the boisterous-but-engaged type of energy.  (Ides of March, you don't frighten me!)  Taking a few months off after this to get some recording-thoughts together; back in June.

Gigs, Grants, & Gratitude

Auburn, WA: Auburn Library (Bushwick Book Club - Pride & Prejudice)

The Bushwick Book Club is getting back into KCLS shows (there were several in 2011), and this foray comes on the first brilliantly-sunny Saturday of the year.  Figures.  Nice crowd, nonetheless, and fun to re-live parts of this show.  More library shows coming over the next few months!

Seattle, WA: Richard Hugo House (Bushwick Book Club - Ellen Forney's "Lust")

Ellen Forney's Lust--cartoon depictions of kinky on-line personal ads--lies well outside my usual source material, even as those boundaries have shifted and grown from different Bushwick Book Club selections.  But I'm glad for the challenge, and the chance to see how other writers approached this dirty-yet-affectionately-human work.  Plus, Ellen's on-hand...and willing to participate in tonight's quiz: LustLab username or AsSeenOnTV.com product?

Seattle, WA: Musicquarium Lounge at The Triple Door

The band is working up some of the Bushwick Book Club tunes into nice, full arrangements, and I'm enjoying integrating them into the sets rather than showcasing them as special, sideshow-type numbers in the midst of our 'normal.'  Still a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll...

Seattle, WA: Couth Buzzard

The scene building here at Couth Buzzard Espresso & Books is a neat one, low-key but heartfelt--kind of like a house concert in a cool library.  Knowing how busy a bookshelf-backdrop can look, I threw on my loudest shirt for the occasion: an in-the-round with good friends (and great writers) Matt Price, Joy Mills, and bandmate Alicia Healey.  Clearly, that's me on the right...